President Donald Trump said on Friday U.S. forces carried out a strike that killed ​Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, also known as Nino Guerrero, the leader of Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua, Reuters reported. 

"At my direction, the United States Southern Command delivered a swift and lethal kinetic strike to successfully execute Nino Guerrero the infamous leader of Tren De Aragua, one of the most ​bloodthirsty Terrorist Organizations on Planet Earth," Trump said in a post on Truth ​Social on Friday evening.